HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080122390
Bassin de Río Meta
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Orocué, Puerto Gaitán
Sub-basin area
490,6km²
Upstream area
55 402km²
Discharge
2 918,53m³/s
Mean elev.
139m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Guirripa - Madrevieja1039 km²
- Bassin de Río Meta23 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 425.4 km²87.1% of basin
- 63.1 km²12.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Palmarito Casanare
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
4.97 km² overlap
Bioparque Wisirare
IUCN Not ApplicableBiopark
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
335 distinct species · 1 392 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Meta : 26 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 900mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
1 508mm/an
PET
1 672mm
AET
1 285mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
3cm
Forest
14%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)